Insomniac's Greatest Failure Yet

My Love for Insomniac Games has done much more than slowly fade away and at this point is free falling into a pit void of any originality. After Ratchet and Clank: A Crank in Time released, none of their games have shown us anything that has reached that level of quality. The only excuse I could think of for all of these mediocre games releasing was that Insomniac was focusing all the resources they could on Fuse.

i think Resistance was more generic compared to this, fps, aliens, soldiers defending their land...but this look more fun especially in gameplay, MP and characters are awesome too, add to all that ITS NOT A FREAKING FPS and that's a big plus! wish insomniac the best of luck with this game

to tell you the truth i cant really put my 2 cents in on resistance since i only played a demo of the first 1,but i chose not to buy it because i felt the same exact way,it was an fps with aliens an soldiers trying to defend the world.

i agree with this article except when they say that A Crack in Time is the last great IG game because R3 is a very good game.

i love IG for the Spyro and Ratchet games, but Fuse is really not enjoyable at all. Fuse will obviously fail and IG have to step their game up by giving their fans what they deserve.

Ted Price was saying basically that they were tired of offering sequels and they wanted to give sth new to their fans, but why make an underdog TPS and not keep doing the unique things we have all been used to?

The first resistance was one of the best fps games EVER. No game had a seriously suspenseful campaign with great storytelling the way it did, and the MP was pure extremely fun, addicting, skill-based 40-player awesomeness.

If you had the Resistance Collection, why would you skip to the multiplayer on R3? It was terrible compared to R1 and R2. And with regards to you not being able to finish the first game I just just don't understand that at all. What are some of the other FPS games that you like?

I loved resistance 1 and 2 they were awesome some of the best games on the ps3.. R3 was ok at best.. But this game looks whack and this RE5 chris Redfield looking guy with 34inch biceps looks ridiculous.

I'm not really a huge fan of FPS's in general. I did play the multiplayer in 2, but I had trouble finding a game. 1 I was never able to play because I could never get into a game. I think the reason I couldn't get past the first campaign was the controls. They were so awkward compared to other FPS's.

R2's co op is one of my all time fav experiences...and it hasn't been done again. I was sad when r3 omitted it. I was looking forward to a more evolved version. I played r2 co op and competitive for months and months. When I saw fuse I was hoping that this was it...what I had been waiting for. The early team fortress look had me really excited. Then, its as if they went the path so many have before...make it look and play like some other triple A game that sold well. What they didn't count on was that we hav grown tired even of those great games. Originality is the name of the game now. Its why so many are playing games like dark souls, indie games, or mobile games.

Its a simple demo. People complained about DMC. Oh what the game sold over million copies!? It has a metacritic rating of 86!?

Despite it being a reboot DMC still stayed true to what it does best. And people were crying and moaning all the way until its released.

This game is a brand new Ip. A complete cop op experience that revolves around four characters.

Though I highly enjoyed borderlands with 2 maxed characters and spent like 50 hours on it.

The game seriously lacked character depth, progression and build. BL2 story from the first one was "better", but the four characters were just staples of "choosing your class" and "how you wanted to play"

That was it. Fuse seems have characters with life and not just simple meat suits of character classes with very little personality and almost meaningless to exist in the game with one liners to remind the player that "your playing a character."

The enemies, situations and over all outlook of the story do seem generic and done over and over again in fuse I will say that.

But again, the simple fact that its story four player online that simply gives you a background story with each character is win imo.

lol, what? Yes DmC averaged a respectable 85% on reviews aggregates, it didn't sell over a million though, it shipped over a million. After 4 months it has only sold around 700K and its sales have slowed to a crawl, it performed horribly despite a good critical reception, the last game in the series (DMC4) sold 2.7 million http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/... (not close to 4 million 00).

Fuse is mediocre, it will average in the low 70s on reviews aggregates and be lucky to sell 500K copies on all platforms combined this year. It will be a critical and commercial flop, everyone can see that.

I feel sorry for Insomniac, I've loved some of their games and I hope Fuse bombing doesn't have too bad an effect on them.

The big reviewers who give out there scores first were obviously paid off someway with either exlclusive info on their next games or somehting else because theres no way that games a 8,9 or even 10 out of 10.

It's inferior to past DMC titles and a back step for the franchise...overall it's worse then other games (least DMC2 despite how bad it was, was still a DMC game)...

Sales numbers prove if a game is good or bad? Just Dance must be an incredible game then, and Psychonauts and Shenmue must be terrible games.

I bet Zero Punctuation and TotalBiscuit sold out to Capcom. In fact, I agree with you that Capcom spent millions to pay reviewers to give high scores. That's far more likely than, you know, it actually being a good game that you just happen to dislike.

Obviously you're playing Borderlands 2 for a different reason than any other people. Nobody I know plays Borderlands for the story or characters.

With that said, the story isn't actually that bad in Borderlands 2. It's at least semi-interesting, in my opinion. Sure, the player characters are lifeless and don't have much personality, but that's like saying the player character in Skyrim doesn't have much personality.

yep this game looked cool when the art style was different. now it looks lame. also resistance 2 coop and mp is something really awesome that you cant get anywhere else on consoles. the coop was just beast as well as 30 vs 3o online mp with crazy weapons shooting through walls and force fields and shields and stuff.

Insomniac got free passes because they were exclusive to Sony. They are a empty shell of their former selves and haven't made a good game in a long long time. Resistance 1 was the best they've created in years and even that was only 'good'(Even though I loved it, it gets overrated quite a lot)

They were trying to create an at least somewhat interesting game from the first trailer but EA saw that no one gave a f*ck so they "improved" it by making it MORE generic and now this is what we get....

Also we know insomniacs did screw up before but I have always tried to make something different.